Gleeson College Curriculum Guide 2026 - Middle Years | 30 Year 9 Subjects JAPANESE A + B LEARNING AREA: Languages LENGTH: Full Year SELECTION: Elective LEARNING SUMMARY: Students build confidence in using Japanese for everyday interactions, using a wide range of expressions and culturally appropriate gestures with growing spontaneity and self-correction. They consider the cultural context, purpose, and audience when communicating and develop a deeper understanding of Japanese sentence structures, verb conjugation, and the past tense, too. Students initiate and sustain conversations in both spoken and written forms, using familiar language as a base to create original sentences. They begin learning katakana, and expand their use of kanji. Cultural topics include school life, daily routines, and hobbies. Students are expected to have mastered the hiragana alphabet and be able to read and write basic Japanese prior to starting this subject. Students may only enrol in Year 9 Japanese after completing Japanese in Years 7 and 8. ASSESSMENT: Students demonstrate their learning through oral tasks, reading and writing tasks, and cultural investigations. Welcome Learning at Gleeson College Gleeson Staff Contacts Year 7 Overview Subjects Year 8 Overview Subjects Year 9 Overview Subjects LANGUAGE LEARNING AREA: English LENGTH: Full Year SELECTION: Elective LEARNING SUMMARY: Students develop foundational literacy skills, including knowledge of parts of speech, sentence structure, and single paragraph construction. The course content is delivered through explicit instruction to support students in building strong literacy foundations and expressing themselves through coherent writing. These skills enhance their ability to communicate effectively and benefit learning across all subject areas. Entry into this subject is restricted to those students who have studied this subject in previous years. ASSESSMENT: This is a non-graded subject. Feedback on student achievement is provided via regular progress checks. MATHEMATICS LEARNING SUMMARY: Students develop their mathematical understanding, fluency, problem-solving, and reasoning skills, building their confidence in applying mathematics to abstract and contextual situations. Key learning includes comparing data sets, linear relationships, introduction to right angle trigonometry, measurement of composite 2D shapes and 3D solids, introduction to quadratics in algebra, application of index laws, properties of similarity in geometric figures, and probability of compound events. The course encourages logical thinking and effective strategies for solving a wide range of mathematical problems. ASSESSMENT: Students demonstrate their learning through tests and mathematical investigations. LEARNING AREA: Mathematics LENGTH: Full Year SELECTION: Compulsory